Author: BROWN, ANTHONY J.
Title: Ill-Starred Captains. Flinders and Baudin.
Description: First Edition; Thick Med. 8vo; pp. xx, 512; numerous colour illustrations, numerous b/w illustrations, bibliography, index; original cloth, dustjacket, a fine copy. Adelaide; Crawford House Publishing; 2000. Between 1801 and 1803, Baudin and Flinders filled in most of the gaps on the map of what was then New Holland. The voyages were also very important scientifically. Both carried significant collections of flora and fauna home to Europe. The French scientists made invaluable observations on the life and customs of Tasmanian aborigines, while the naturalist Robert Brown in Investigator laid the foundations of Australian botany. Caught up on an increasingly bitter war, the French and British governments gave little recognition to these scientific achievements.
Keywords: Australian Australia discovery exploration biography Nicholas Baudin Matthew Flinders
Title: Ill-Starred Captains. Flinders and Baudin.
Description: First Edition; Thick Med. 8vo; pp. xx, 512; numerous colour illustrations, numerous b/w illustrations, bibliography, index; original cloth, dustjacket, a fine copy. Adelaide; Crawford House Publishing; 2000. Between 1801 and 1803, Baudin and Flinders filled in most of the gaps on the map of what was then New Holland. The voyages were also very important scientifically. Both carried significant collections of flora and fauna home to Europe. The French scientists made invaluable observations on the life and customs of Tasmanian aborigines, while the naturalist Robert Brown in Investigator laid the foundations of Australian botany. Caught up on an increasingly bitter war, the French and British governments gave little recognition to these scientific achievements.
Keywords: Australian Australia discovery exploration biography Nicholas Baudin Matthew Flinders
Price: AUD 40.00 = appr. US$ 27.67 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 118472
- Book number: 118472